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Say It with SongsWhen he accidentally kills a...
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When he accidentally kills a man coming on to his wife, a singer goes to jail and loses his family.

Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine. Infuriated, Lane engages him in a fight, and the encounter results in Phillips' accidental death. Joe goes to prison for a few years, and when he is released he visits his son, Little Pal, at school and is begged by him to run away together. Because Joe earns little money, Little Pal helps by selling papers but is soon struck by a truck, causing the paralysis of his legs and loss of his voice. Joe takes his boy to a specialist named Dr. Merrill, presently married to Joe's former wife, whom Joe divorced while in prison in order to save her good name. After obtaining Joe's promise that he will return Little Pal to his mother, Merrill operates and restores the use of his legs. His voice is regained later when the boy awakens to one of his father's recordings. Keeping his promise, Joe goes on his way with only his melancholy whistling to comfort him.